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  • CELEBRITY CULTURE
    ELLIS CASHMORE
    Haven’t we all seen a Black Panther movie and listened to at least a few Harry Styles tunes? Who hasn’t seen a Taylor Swift video? Or can’t name an incident or two involving the Kardashians? Popular fascination with the rich and famous is an inescapable part of contemporary consumer culture. Celebrity Culture is a comprehensive yet accessible survey of the pervasive phenomenon....

    $979.00

  • STUDYING FOOTBALL
    ELLIS CASHMORE
    Football is the most widely played, watched and studied sport in the world. It’s hard to develop a full understanding of the significance of sport in global society without understanding the significance of football. Studying Football is the first book designed specifically to guide and support the study of football on degree-level courses, across the full range of social-scien...

    $1,179.00

  • MAKING SENSE OF SPORTS
    ELLIS CASHMORE
    Updated, revised and enhanced with new features, the fifth edition of Making Sense of Sports is the biggest and strongest yet. Ellis Cashmore's unique multidisciplinary approach to the study of sports remains the only introduction to combine anthropology, biology, economics, history, philosophy, psychology and sociology with cultural and media studies to produce a distinct unbr...

    $1,599.00

  • SPORT AND EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY: THE KEY CONCEPTS
    ELLIS CASHMORE
    Now including exercise psychology terms for the first time in its second edition, Sport and Exercise Psychology: The Key Concepts offers a highly accessible introduction to this fascinating subject, its central theories and state-of-the-art research. Over 300 alphabetically-ordered entries cover such diverse terms as: adherence aggression emotion exercise dependence home advant...

    $679.00

  • THE BLACK CULTURE INDUSTRY
    ELLIS CASHMORE
    Cashmore's controversial study argues that black culture has been converted into a commodity, usually in the interests of white owned corporations. Using detailed studies of the marketing of Motown, Michael Jackson and the Artist Formerly Known as Prince, Cashmore suggests that inflating the significance of this commodified 'black culture' may actually be counter-productive in ...

    $1,279.00

  • ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RACE AND ETHNIC STUDIES
    CASHMORE, ELLIS
    Developed from the critically acclaimed and commercially successful Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Relations, now in its fourth edition, Encyclopedia of Race and Ethnic Studies has been assembled by a world-class team of international scholars led by Ellis Cashmore to provide an authoritative, single-volume reference work on all aspects of race and ethnic studies. From Aborigina...

    $1,939.00

  • SPORTS CULTURE
    ELLIS CASHMORE
    We live in a culture in which sports play an important role. The growth in broadcasting, merchandising, iconography and the commercialization of sports has led to an increasing interest in the emerging field of sports culture. This book examines individual issues, people, artefacts, events and organizations in their historical, social and cultural contexts. Coverage is wide-ran...

    $1,559.00

  • DICTIONARY OF RACE AND ETHNIC RELATIONS
    PROFESSOR ELLIS CASHMORE / ELLIS CASHMORE
    Ethnicity and racial relations are almost universally seen as a prime motivating force behind social conflict and change. Often volatile and complex, racial interaction resonates through all aspects of contemporary society. Social issues which appear to have little connection to race often become entagled with ethnic friction to create far more complex problems. Race is often u...

    $2,300.00

  • AND THERE WAS TELEVISION
    PROFESSOR ELLIS CASHMORE / ELLIS CASHMORE
    Why all the fuss over television? It is blamed for an assortment of evils, including violence, shortened attention spans, the decline of literacy and political indoctrination. In this scintillating and approachable book, Ellis Cashmore weighs up the theories and evidence. He argues that much of the panic is without foundation and that the single most important danger posed by T...

    $999.00